Populace
['pɒpjʊləs] or ['pɑpjələs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) people in general considered as a whole; 'he is a hero in the eyes of the public'.
珍妮整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, -- comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession.
霍雷肖整理
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Commonalty, rabble, mob, the people, the crowd, the multitude, the million, the peasantry, the vulgar herd, the common people, the lower classes, the vulgar, the humbler classes, scum of society, dregs of society.
整理:佩吉
解釋/意思:
n. the common people: those who are not distinguished by rank education office &c.
艾琳編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- It was a peal of joy from the populace outside, greeting the news that he would die on Monday. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- If the excited and irritable populace knew I was here, I should be torn to pieces. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The clocks are on the stroke of three, and the furrow ploughed among the populace is turning round, to come on into the place of execution, and end. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- At every vote (the Jurymen voted aloud and individually), the populace set up a shout of applause. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- On the other hand, the majority of the populace unquestionably would demand that we pay the penalty of our sacrilege. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The Roman populace was even more seriously scared. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The populace cried enthusiastically, No! 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- When he had landed a month ago, the noisy populace had been hushed by sorrow and fear; but this was a festival day to all. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- As the sombre wheels of the six carts go round, they seem to plough up a long crooked furrow among the populace in the streets. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Customers will be drawn to each conventicle by new industry and address, in practising on the passions and credulity of the populace. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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